And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone

Alvin Schwartz

HarperCollins Pub., 1992 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 195 pages

From autograph rhymes to street rhymes, from riddles to jump-rope chants, here is a wonderful collection of more than 250 folk poems to share with friends & family. Understand, rubberband?

Contents

• PEOPLE: 1
• FOOD: 15
• SCHOOL: 25

About the author

Alvin Schwartz was born April 25, 1927.Schwartz began his career as a journalist, but, after the publication of his bestselling book A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues, he devoted himself to becoming a collector and arranger of folk wisdom, rhyme, and silliness. Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Schwatz is best known for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, which featured gruesome, nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The series was America's most frequently challenged book (or book series) for library inclusion of 1990-1999. Alvin Schwartz died in Princeton, New Jersey on March 14, 1992. Sue Truesdell has illustrated many children's books, including How to Talk to Your Dog by Jean Craighead George and Betsy Byars's I Can Read! series about the adventuresome Golly Sisters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone
• Author: Alvin Schwartz
• Illustrated by: Sue Truesdell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins Pub., 1992
• ISBN: 0060227583, 9780060227586
• Length: 195 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)